The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 14, 1921, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
PAC.E EIGHT
- GERMANY IS
A BANKRUPT
Correspondent Declares Bankruptcy
Not Confined
to Finances.
By Milton Bronner.
Berlin.?The Germany of today is!
a bankrupt nation.
It is a bankrupt in more ways than j
the mere matter of an inability to
make its income match it? expense*.
Other European nations are bankrupt
in that particular way?Franc*?
k-, and Italy, for instance.
But Germany is bankrupt in hopo
and endeavor. It is bankrupt in vim
and zest of living. It is bankrupt
nf fnitli in thr> future.
The average German of today?the
fellow like you and me and Neighbor
Smith can hardly see a gleam of
hope ahead. He is rid of his expensive
kaiser and the other minor kings
and grand dukes and princes. He is
of a great expensive army and navy.
He is lid of conscription. He has a
republic instead of a monarchy. But
nowhere does he see unity or peace or
satisfaction.
Politically Germany is a house not,
only divided against itself, hut many
times subdivided.
There are politicians who dream
of the restoration of the monarchy.
There arc political parties which
dream of Bolshevism. Even the Socialists
are subdivided into various
representatives in the Reichstag.
Class consciousness has not been
abolished. It has been intensified.
It is now the protestant againstks
It is now the proletariat against th>
aristocrat, but the worker against the
war profiteer and, in another sense,
the town dweller against the farmer.
If the German is fairly well off,
the state takes much of his estate
and of his income in taxes. If he is a
worker, it grabs 10 per cent of his
wage. If he succeeds in getting his
earnings increased, he finds that the
cost of food, clothes and housing: has
more than kept apace with theextra
money he has earned.
He pays six times as much for his
daily paper as before the war. It
costs him eight times as much to ride
in the street car. His food, coal, gas
and rent have gone up from five to
eight times.
He earns, perhaps, 300 to 500 marks
per week, and the cheapest suit of
clothes is 1,500 marks. Shoes cost
from 90 marks up; shirts 65 marks,
socks 11 marks.
His glass of beer, which tastes to
him like near beer, costs 1 mark.
Everything he smokes "costs much
more. His wife complains she can't
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on what ho a'lows her. ^
If he seeks consolation in hl^ J
newspaper, the chances are that he t
roads of the frosh taxation tlie gov- .
loniiiont will have to assess in or- <
[lev to meet the allied demands foi .
reparation payments. 1
f have heard many people in
Washington, London, Paris andi'
Brussels bewail the fact that Foch 1
agreed to an armistice before the
allied armies marched into Berlin.
They argued that only in this way
could the Germans have been thoroughly
convinced that they were
beaten in the war. But after s?
month in Germany, I think every
German knows he was licked.
Everything the German reads,
hears and sees reminds him of it:
Bremen a dead seaport.
Allied troops on the Rhine.
Ruhr steel mills closing.
S"vnn tovtilo factories or. part
time.
Munich's famous gaiety all gone.
(ierman money low-rated.
German army a mere police force.
German navy at the bottom of the
sea.
German merchant marine in possession
of the allies.
Allied commissions all over the
country.
Germany's future mortgaged to
the allies.
Men like Walter Rathnenau, head
of the great electrical trust, or Hugo
Stinnes, with his finger in a hundred
industrial pies, or Arthur Von
Gwinner, the great banker and
shipping magnate have their own
thoughts and theories, but the future
is so uncertain that they prefer
not to discuss things.
Big business does not know what
may happen in Germany itself. It
faces not only huge taxes and great
increases in its payroll, but an increasing
difficulty in getting raw
materials, not to speak of the difficulty
of finding materials which
will accept German goods.
The result of all this pessimism
and depression and even hopelessness
is a lowing down in the national
life.
^ The trains are slower and fewer.
The street cars run at longer intervals.
The cities are not as brightly
lighted. The gas is not of as high
quality. The shops are not as well
stocked.
You wander into the great department
stores of Essen, Hamburg,
Berlin, Dresden and Leipsic and are
struck by the comparative emptiness
and silence. Only the theatres and
movies and restaurants and beer
gardens are filled.
And there are many tilings you
miss in this after-the-war Germany.
You never run into the parades of
|troops that you used to see. You
miss the military bands which used
to give daily concerts, in the parks.
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fou don't see richly dressed women i J
roing around with expensive toy I
logs. 1
One thing you do see everywhere
is the old gray-green coat of the I
jcrman soldier. But the men who I
ire wearing them are not soldiers I
now. They are plain citizens who H
iire wearing the old army packet be- \M
cause it is made of serviceable cloth H
and they can't afford a new coat. 9
One thing is as it was before the Eg
war. 1 don't know how they man- |l
age it, but German cities are still S
the most spotless in the world. The jB
streets are clean and the parks and B
open places are in beautiful trim. B
The lawns are perfect and thfc pan 9
sies are a riot of color. R
Doubtless you wonder how things 1
go on at all if Germany is reall> jj
bankrupt. In business,'when a firm | I
[is bankrupt, its assets are seized j 2
and sold for the credtiors and the ;l
firm ceascs to be. H
But you can't do that when the jp
government of sixty-five million
people can't meet its debts. You
can't sell them out and bundle them
out. The sixty-five millions with
their industry, their productive capacity,
their wants still remain.
And a nation of that size'can keep B
a great many hands busy satisfying p
its own internal needs and trading
with itself.
Germany is today a land of para
doxcs.
Its government is "busied"?but it
is sustaining tens of thousands of
wounded ex-soldiers by pension" ,
and other tens of thousands of un* |
employed people by doles?
It is a republic?but it has few |
convinced republicans.
It has been badly beaten?but it- J
people dream of revenge upon j
France.
Prices are sky-high?but the use *
of luxuries like champagne, per :
fumes and motor cars has tremendously
increased.
Fares have been increased?but I
railway trains, steamboats and |
street cars were never so crowded j
as they are today.
People denounce militarism?but
all over Germany you see picture-* j
of old Hindenburg.
Though hope is dead, hate lives?
hate of France, the victor! And
Germans think of revenue, talk of
the next war?and blacklist allied ;
poods!
When the man in the moon came
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REGISTRATION NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
members of the county
board of registration will be at Bay- j
boro, at the store of B. L. BufTkin;
from nine o'clock until four on the j
18th day of July, li?21, for the purpose
of registering voters.
O. M. Watts, i
Thos. W. Booth,
Geo. M. Huggins,
7!7 2t Board of Registration, i
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Our Market
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New York.?A real estate firm of j n
nationwide scope, which in the past! a
year sold 4,272 farms valued atls
more than $20,000,000, from Maine
to L-aniornia, nas mane puuuc at its t
offices here the interesting discov- ,
pry for the first time in many years,! (
there are signs of a change in the i t
drift of population "away from the.
cities and back to the farms." j
Recently announced federal census | \
statistics showed that the aggregate I (
population of American cities, when j
the canvass was made six months or i j
more ago, actually exceeded the ng-j i
gregate population of the farming 1
districts, a condition unprecedented' ,
in the country's history. This is ex-^
plained by the fact that there was i \
an influx of people from farming L
communities to the cities especially
in the period of abnormal industrial
activity during and immediately fol-j
lowing the war. Thousands of farmers
and members of their families;
came to factory localities, where, j
for two or three years they made big!
wages. With the slump following;
the general industrial readjustment,
however, these farmers, and in many
cases, idle city dwellers as well, are
turning to the 'ariis where labor
has long been at a premium.
The records of the firm i'i question
are said to sho.v that during
the past 20 years it;; sales have been
made in almost unvarying proportion,
two-thirds to farmers moving.
from one section or state to another, |
and one-third '*o Mien from the citie.-.
The present back-to-the-farm movement,
however, it is declared, shows
'an almost exact reversal of these
! percentages, that is, two-thirds of
the sales are now beim* made to men
from the cities as against oi.e-1hird
to the farmers.
i "The first check in the cityward
j movement," a member of this firm
i stated. "anDears from available
'statistics to have come late last fall,
J with the tightning of industrial conditions
and consequent' lack of em:
ployment in the cities. It became
increasingly evident this winter until
}n February the tide seems to
have begun to flow the other way.
"The change, naturally, is most
marked in the vicinity of the industxiel
centers, the February sales in
New England, for instance, having
increased more than 200 per cent,
over those of last year; those in the
' middle Atlantic states about 175 per
cent, over last year, and In the steel
centers and manufacturing districts
of the central west approximately
100 pe rccnt.
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:e of Buyers will be
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rom the cities and manufacturing'
owns back to the farms are believed
<? be men who came from the counrv
originally, attracted by high'
trapes in industry. Many of these
non acumulated considerable savings
md now that work is uncertain and
carce, they are using their savings
o purchase self-supporting homes
or themselves, rather than to acept
lower wages or to live in idleless
while their savings are being i
?aten up in high rests and other
ivoidable living costs in the cities."
New England was said to be leadng
the entire country in the backo-the-land
movement. While the in
ireas.e throughout the United States!
s in excess of HO per cent, greater)
in February than for the same
period last year, New England's
farm sales show an increase of 200
per cent., due to the fact that many
factory workers who have been
thrown out of employment or forced
to submit to wage reductions, have
left the cities and towns and gone
into general farming, dairying, poultry
and hog raising and bee-keeping,
as well as the cultivation of small
f ruits.
An interesting feature of the situation
is that of the 4,272 farms
sold last year, 1,171 were disposed
of in New England, more than onequarter
of them to residents of other
states, only 57 buyers were New
England people.
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THE STUFF.
The test of a man is the fight he
m:ike?,
'Plin iri'it hf (btilv shows:
t . i?, ^ . . v v..?? ?
The way ho stands on his feet and
takes
Fate's numerous humps and blows.
A coward can smile when there's
naught to fear,
When nothing1 his progress bars,
But it takes a man to stand up and
cheer
While some other follow stars.
It isn't the victory after all,
Hut the fight that the brother makes;
The man, who, driven against the
wall,
Si ill stands up erect and takes
The blows of fate with his head held
high,
Bleeding, and bruised, and pale,
Is the man who'll win in the bye and
bye,
For he isn't afraid to fail.
It's the bumps you get, and the jolts
you get,
Ana the shocks that your courage
stands,
The hours of sorrow and vain regret
The prize that escapes your hand,
That test your mettle and prove your
worth;
It isn't the blows you deal,
But the blows you take on this good
earth *
That shows if your stuff is real.
?"Teamwork."
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July 19th.
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ROPRIETOR. I
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\ Church Directory *
Conway Baptist Church, Myron W.
Uordon, Pastor.
Services every Sunday.
Sund'iy School Exercises 10 a. m.
Morning worship and preaching
11:15 a. in.
Evening worship and preaching
X: I r, j>. m.
Prayer meeting services every
Wednesday evenjng at 8:15.
Strangers and visitors cordially
welcomed to all these services.
Kingston Presbyterian Church, J. MLentmon,
Pastor.
Services every Sunday morning.
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Morning worship and preaching at
11:25 a. m.
Prayer meeting services Tuesday
7:30 p. in.
We welcome one and all to our
services.
Conway Methodist Church, J. C. Atkinson,
Pastor.
Services every Sunday.
Departmental Church School 10'
a. m.
Bible Class for men only 10 a. m.
Morning worship and preaching
11:15 a. m.
Evening worship 7 p. m.
j Prayer meeting services Wednesday
evening 7 o'clock.
Welcome extended to everybody toattend
all services.
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066 cures Malaria, Chills and Fever,
Bilious Fever, Colds and LaGrippe, or
money refunded.?adv.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
All persons having claims against
the late James F. Cause are hereby
given notice to present same, duly
verified according to law, to the undersigned
Executors, and all perunnv:
i r.rlnltt <?rl mil n thr> mluU
IIIMVI7VVVI Mil W VI *V tC4 tV' |
are hereby requested to make immediate
payment of same to us.
J. J. McDowell, Kxecutor.
Kllcn Gause, Executrix.
Allsbrook, S. C., July 5th, 11)21.
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take' HAYES' HEALING HONEY, *
cough medicine which stops the cough by
healing the inflamed and irritated tissues.
A bo* of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATE V
SALVE for Chest Colds, Head OoAds and
' Croup is enclosed with every bottle of
HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The naive
should be rubbed on the chest and throat
of children suffering from a Cold or Qroup.
The heal bo* effect of Hayes' Hetttal Honey laftide
the throat combined wkh the heatmt effort 0i
Grore'e O-Pen-Trate Salve Ihwwith the pore* of
the ekln moo Mope a oough.
I Doth remedtee are packed In oae carton and the
cwt of the combtaed treatment la 9Qe.fi
*Juct ask your druggist for HAYES*
HEALING HONEY.